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Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.
"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.
Mr Trump's tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America's nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed stead reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Translation Error on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:50PM (7 children)
(Score: 5, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:52PM
It's so old that even FCC chairman Ajit Pai took time off from sucking Verizon dick to react to people blaming him for not addressing it.
(Score: 2, Troll) by frojack on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:00PM (5 children)
And it was wrong over a week agostill wrong today.
He made no such threat.
He suggested that people might want to contest the broadcast licenses at the required FCC public hearings when their license is up for renewal if they insist on using public airwaves to only air one side of the story.
It probably wouldn't work, because a great deal of their coverage is carried by private carriers these days. Still they have broadcast licenses in some markets, and satellite licenses as well that use scarce public resources. It makes more sense to talk to their advertisers.
In past years I've sent printed letters to my local TV stations complaining about their one-sided news coverage, and asking when their next FCC renewal comment period was scheduled. Got a nice call from two different station managers, both feigning understanding, (but nothing much has changed).
Broadcast Stations are obligated to announce their renewal dates and comment periods.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:27PM
"NBC and the Networks", the bogeyman Trump identified in his tweet [twitter.com], do not have broadcast licenses. The individual local stations do. By all means, try to challenge them. Is there a kind of complaint that would be successful in getting a license revoked other than the station interrupting children's programming to show hardcore pornography?
We're seeing a lot more 100% lies coming from Trump than 100% fake news coming from the lamestream media. The premise of his tweet was stupid and self-serving (to the extent that a non-starter idea can be self-serving).
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by meustrus on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:32PM
That's a good idea. I should call my local station and complain about the clearly one-sided news segments provided by Sinclair. If I wanted the plutocrat's version of conservative takes on current events, I'd turn to Fox News. When will the sheeple wake up and see the blatant right-wing bias in the lamestream media?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:50PM
How about you get your nose out of Trump's ass?
He did not say that "people" should contest the license. What he said about who should contest the licenses is at best ambiguous. It's right there in the summary.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @11:35PM
Do you also send letters to your local Fox stations for their biased coverage? Probably not...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 20 2017, @12:59AM
The Fairness Doctrine [wikipedia.org] (the rule that broadcast license holders had to provide some sort of balanced presentation of controversial issues) no longer applies. The rule was done away with in 1987 and finally completely erased [politico.com] in 2011.